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To answer the question of whether or not the Civil Rights movement in the United States has achieved its goals, we first must know what its goals were. Perhaps the biggest achievement of the movement was its march on Washington in 1963. Clearly, the goals of the movement can be found by analyzing the march on Washington. The march brought together all of the major civil rights groups. Philip Randolph, who started the march, focused on jobs. He was concerned with the number or unemployed and underpaid African Americans in comparison to whites. The other major goal of the movement focused on freedom. Even though the Jim Crow laws of the early 1900’s had been banned in the North by the second half of the century, a great deal of segregation and discrimination still occurred in the South. (www.Africanaonline.com).
Now that we know the goals of the Civil Rights movement, we can determine whether or not it has achieved them. Bruce Hartford, a Jewish veteran of the movement, does not ...

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